South Bengal

South Bengal is a region of southern Bangladesh and West Bengal, located on the other side of the Padma River from North Bengal. The region's main population centers were Chittagong, Calcutta, and Jessore, and the region was almost entirely (99.1%) Bengali as of the 1836 census. The region showed that South Bengal had a Hindu majority (59.3%) and a significant Sunni minority (39.8%), and there were also smaller religious communities in the country (such as the 250 animist Asian Minor soldiers in Chittagong or the 2,402 British Protestant military personnel in Calcutta).